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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13417, 14 March 1914, Page 8

Them are eight leading orders of Knighthood, tho Garter, the Thistle. St. Patrick; the Bath, tho Star of !nr3ia, : St."" Michael and St. George, the A. Jtffdfan Empire and tbo Royal Victorian Order. The Knichts Bachelor are not a properly constituted Order, the rea-r-on being; no doubt, that in origin thev-wcro regarded merely as !:comi pamons." "Bachelor," in fact, is I simply a corruption of "baa chevalier," --"signifying- a knight lower in dignity than-one who received his lionnnr tinder the royal banner. The Orc^rs ■of tho Garter, the Thistle and St. Patrick are nowadays confined to the noJnlity, although exceptions haro at times been made.